t I N E MAti • TRADE MEWS • Masse's Telefilm decision Ontario censors" more oppressive" expected middle of March TORONTO - The Ontario gov­ tribution much more tightly now proclaimed are indeed: ernment has legalized its cen­ than it has in the past by ex­ very close to the ones that we TORONTO - Minister of Com­ Telefilm are close to being re­ sorship criteria. Assented to tending the Board's powers have been using and that we munications Marcel Masse's solved. The Minister is close to Feb. 4, the new criteria were over all distribution for direct had determined over a period delay in announcing changes to making a decision." 1\'0 date added as regulations to the or indil'ect gain. '' In effect, this of five years of being really Broadcast Fund policies is cau­ was set on when the decision Theatres Act. means that every film and/or representative of community sing consternation in th e inde­ ""ould be announced. However, Last February the Court Videotape that is rented, sold standards." . pendent production sector. it was made clear that nothing of Appeal ruled against the or shown for promotion will The new regulations state Michael MacM iIIan, Canadian would be forthcoming until the constitutionality of the sec­ have to pass through the Board. that the Boal'd ma l' refuse to Film and Television Associa· last week of Februan or the tion (CFTA ) vice-president, says first week of March. The indus· that required all movies to be This provision will create the approve a film for e~ hibition 01' submitted to the ce nsor board need for a lal'ge bureaucracy distribution in Ontario where he is "worried, very worried. tr\! had originall\' expected the before public exhibition on the and w ill affect non -com m e~­ the film contains: It 's bizarre. The current situa­ minister to make an announce· grounds that its standards cial film distributors as well as tion is so lunatic, so ill-advised." ment in mid-Februarv. • graphic or prolonged scenes He said that if nothing is done w ere vague and easily chan­ artists and comm unity groups of violence, torture, crime, soon a lot of production com· Cinema Canada sources ged. However, censorship cri­ that use informa l exchanges to cruelty, horror or human de· panies are going to be b adly mentioned that while the teria in the law s hould meet get their material around." gradation; the court's objections. hurt. minister took the view that the Poole also said that, bv al­ • the depiction of the physical Communications consultant situation was urgent, "he re­ The Ontario Film and Video lowing the standards to be' part abuse or humiliation of human Paul Audley w ho has been con· sisted the pressure to do some­ Appreciation Society, which beings for purposes of sexual of the regulations of the Act, ducting a review of Broadcast thing very fast," as one source launched the court action they may be changed by gratification or as pleasing to Fund policies told Cinema put it. In the review process against the censor board, in­ Cabinet decision. the victim; Canada that he has briefed the everybody who had a point of tends to challenge the new • a scene where a person who Ontario Film Review Board minister but refused to elab­ view was spoken with. "Every­ regulations. In an interview is or is inte nded to represent a chairperson Mary Brown, how­ orate on what he had advised. thing we do, however," added with Cinema Canada, Lynn person under 16 appears nude ever, noted that "my strongest Equally tight-lipped was Tele­ the source, "is on a wing and a King, the lawyer acting for or partially nude in a sugges­ plea was that the standards not film program fund director prayer. We can't reliably pre­ OFAVAS, said that the "new tive context or in a scene of be enshrined in the Act, but Peter Pearson. Telefilm pre­ test all the options. \lVe want to regulations are very vague; explicit sexual activity; that they be put in the regula­ sented a brief to Masse at the eliminate as much uncertainty they infringe on the criminal • the explicity and gratuitious tions. I saw what happe ned to beginning of February. as possible to present the code; and they violate the depiction of urination, defeca­ the Criminal Code. It hasn't A source close to the minister Minister with a responsible charter of rights." tion or vomiting ; David [Joole, an OFAVAS changed in 25 years and it's not said that the "issues around assessment." even relevant today unless you • explicit depiction of sexual spokesman, noted that the activity; have an enlightened judge. "Theatre Act is more oppres­ • a scene depicting indignities sive than it was in the past. The standards had to be in the regulations where they could to the human body in an ex· There are incredible, draco­ plicit manner ; Broadcast policV review nian possibilities in this act. I be adjusted speedily, other­ wise you were defeating the • a scene where there is un­ don't see how much more res­ due emphasis on human trictive you can get." He poin­ whole purpose of the com­ terms of reference munity standards." genitalia; ted to the fact that the Act • a scene where an animal has allows the Board to control dis- She was particularly pleased been abused in the making of defined by DOC tht "the guidelines that are the film. TORONTO - Informed sources provision of local program­ Masse & Cote have told Cinema Canada that ming; minister of Communications • full exploitation of national on copyright changes Marcel Masse plans to have a television advertising by the Tegra plans world class studio White Paper on broadcast eBC with the withdrawal from OTTAWA - Communications policy published in June and all local and regional adver­ minister Marcel Masse, in col­ legislation tabled by Septem­ tising; laboration with consumer and VANCOUVER - Tegra Indus­ do world-class films. We ex­ ber. • an expanded role for provin­ corporate affairs minister Mi­ tries; a Vancouver-based pro­ pect 1985 to do even better." Last December Masse an­ cial broadcasters; chel Cote, tabled the previous duction services company, is Moniz said he was particular­ nounced that he wanted to • the replacement of CBC government's White Paper on exploring the possibility of ly confident about Tegra be­ undertake a complete review television in-house production revisions to the Copyright Act establishing a $10 million cause "its operating base is of broadcast policy. He would activities by the purchase of with the Parliamentary Com­ world-class studio in Vancou­ solid, It will net $1.5 million this not at the time elaborate on the programming from the private mittee on Communications ver. The publicly-quoted com­ year. If any film venture they terms of reference of such a re­ sector. This could entail the and Culture. pany, listed on the Vancouver became involved in collapsed, view. A DOC document ob­ sale or lease of much of the The White Paper, From Gu­ exchange, has staked out a Tegra would remain solvent. It tained by Cinema Canada out­ existing CBC production facil­ tenberg to Telidon, was first 200,000 sq. ft. site and has be­ has a diversified base which lines the minister's "reference ities to the private sector. presented in May 1984 but was gun discussing financing with will minimize risk." scenario." A reliable source within the not reviewed before dissolu­ the provincial government. Recently Tegra has pur­ The document says, "issues DOC said, however, that "the tion of Parliament. Part of Tegra's plans include chased Bay Ann, also listed on raised in the Terms of Referen­ broadcast review has not been Masse told Parliament that financing of Canadian films. the Vancouver exchange, as a ce must be examined in the set in motion in a concrete "Canada's Copyright Act has The company has interested shell company with $210,000 in context of other government way. We are making structural not been revised since 1924. Vancouver brokers Walwyn treasury. Should the studio and policies and priorities inclu­ decisions, looking at issues and Referring the proposals to the Stodgell Cochran Murray Ltd. film financing scheme fly, Bay ding, among othel' things, fi s­ saying what the terms of Commons Committee will in the project. Ann will become the finan­ cal restraint. enhanced federal· reference are." enable the government to con­ In a phone interview with cing arm of Tegra. provincial relations and a n in­ suIt the wide variety of interest Cinema Canada, Walwyn Moniz is currently exploring reased reliance on private sec­ A number of recent I\' formed groups that have a stake in account executive Ernest public interest in the scheme. tor initiative." lobby groups are ca'lling for If its's there h e' ll be ready wi th copyright revision." Moniz said that he's very ex­ It notes that particular em· public discussion of broadcast a prospectus in six months to The major American film cited about the project. He phasis will be given to the polic'~ ' via a Royal Commission. raise $2 million nationwide. distributors have been pressing noted that there has been a following : It seems like h ', however, that Tegra operates Alpha Cine, the government for some time huge demand for film and • the privatization of certain the minister \\:i1l, as in the past. the largest film lab in western to initiate changes in the copy­ video services in the west. CBC activities ; continue to w ork through con­ Canada ; film and video audio right law, particularly with "1984 was the best year ever for • the CBC's withdrawal froIll sultants. Paul Audley, who services; a video post-produc­ respect to l'etransmission of British Columbia, partly be­ sub-regional television pro­ acted as consultant to the tion facility ; and a video dupli· movies by cable companies. cause of the exchange rate. But gramming ; minister on the CBC cuts and catio.n facility. It is forming a However, the section in the a lot of L.A. producers and • a n ew relationship be tween the re\'iew of Broadcast Fund division to' distribute home White Paper pertaining to cable directors have said Vancouver the CBC and private, l,Dca l policies, is tipped to head a video tapes. corries to no conclusions. has developed the expertise to broadcasters regarding the study of broadcast polic\'.

March 1985 - Cinema Canada/ 39 • C I ME MAC; • maintaining federal funding long-lasting effecto~ the abiiity Canadian Publishers, the Asso­ for the agencies and councils of our artists and arts organiza­ ciation of Cultural Executives, Artists march on Ottawa to in line with inflation." But as tions to continue to create the the Canadian Authors Associa­ Barlow notes, the arts cutbacks only thing that makes us uni­ tion, the Canadian Conference announced Nov. 8. "follow que as a nation - a truly Cana­ on the Arts, the Federation of protest cultural budget cuts years of inflationary losses and dian vision." Canadian Guilds and Unions in happen at a critical time·in our Among the arts organizations Film and Television, and the OTTAWA - Canadian artists Canadian Conference on the cultural development. They forming the Coalition are Union des artistes. from all disciplines plan to Arts. "As a community repre­ will have a devastating and ACTRA, the Association of march on Ottawa on Wednes­ senting the largest Cana­ day, Mar. 20, to protest budget dian workforce with 234,280 cuts in the arts. The protest is workers, we feel betrayed and being organized by the Coali­ that we must work together to tion for Canadian Cultural Sur­ respond to the current situa­ vival which represents 41 arts tion which we view as a major organizations across the coun­ crisis." try. The Coalition expects the The Coalition for Canadian march to be followed by Cultural Survival is an ad hoc meetings with government committee of artists and na­ and oppdsition party leaders, tional and provincial arts or­ including 'prime minister Brian ganizations, formed to fight the Mulroney, cabinet ministers Tory government's announ­ Marcel Masse, Michael Wilson, ced $108.3 million cuts to Perrin Beatty, Flora MacDonald, national cultural agencies Joe Clark among others, and such as the CBC, the Canada opposition leaders John Turner Council, and the National Film and Ed Broadbent. Board. "The Coalition sprang up in During last fall's election spontaneous protest," explains campaign, the Conservatives Curtis Barlow, president of the committed themselves "to Arts and business team Up for prize

TORONTO - A new $5000 award Eligible entrants are non­ has been announced by the profit visual or performing arts Council for Business. and the organizations with an annual Arts in Canada (CBAC) to mark operating budget under$l mil­ the Coun~il's 10th anniversary. lion. Entrants should make a The object of the award is to sponsorship proposal for an stimulate non-profit arts or­ event to take place in 1985, out­ ganizations into creating lining the benefits to sponsor innovative proposals for busi­ and entrant. Proposals should ness sponsorship, and to d e­ appeal to a local business monstrate to business that arts w hich has not been a donor to sponsorship can be an effec­ the arts in the past. tive marketing tool. The' deadline for submis­ sions is Mar. 31. Submissions should be typed and not ex­ ceed five pages. The winner will be announced in late TV 0 makes series April, with the award presenta­ tion in May. on social concerns The CBAC's address is P.O. TORONTO - TVOntario has Box 7, Ste. 1507, 401 Bay St., launched a new series on Toronto, M5H 2Y4. social concerns. Produced by TVGs Babs Church and directed by independent Canadian filmmakers, the five-part series, Moving Moonshine which began Feb. 14, consists of three documentaries and TORONTO - Moonshine Pro­ two dramas about individuals ductions, the Vancouver-based dealing w ith challenges faoed company which has just com­ by many people. pleted first feature Samuel The first film is We Were Lount, announces its intention Separate People. Directed by to open a permanent office in Phil Desjardins, it examines Toronto as part of its strategy to young people with learning . "become a major film and TV disabilities. production company in Cana- Next is pulling Flowers, a qa." Moonshine will "actively drama directed by Clarke pursue private investment Mackey on the perils of push- capital" for new projects and ing children to learn before w ill establish a promotion and they are ready. distribution branch to comple- That is followed by Coming ment its production activities. Apart, a drama directed by Ro- Moonshine is currently berta King and Ronald Squire working on a new prOject, about the effects of divorce Black Friday. The film is loose­ mediation on a family. Iy based on the events leading The final two films are Phil up to the day in Vancouver in De~ja:rdin ' s Just the Beginning, October 1984 when several about the Hanen early language penny-stock mining compa­ progr?1n and Rhombus Media's "'" n~s too,," a tumble on the Van­ Making Overtures which looks . couVer Stock Exchange. Bud­ at Coburg's Northumberland gete'd af$2 million,Black Friday Symphony 'Orchestra's struggle will be shot location in Vancou- to survive. ver and Brazil.

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Production francaise French Production Andre Picard Canada (514) 283-8560 March 1985 - Cinema Canada/41 • CINE MAt; • Lobby groups spring to the rescue of CB C in light of budget cuts TORONTO -Within the past changes to the Broadcast Act Morrison told the press that television has "disappeared in that "we must create a balan­ month, two arts lobby groups and discussion of our future " the CBC is an essential instru­ a flood from the United States. ced system of imported and have sprung up to protest the sh ould begin with a Royal ment in keeping this country We have a system which is sub­ national production" which CBC cuts. The Alliance For Commission on Broadcasting." together. We share the view sta ntially American. Three could be achieved by increa­ Public Broadcasting was laun­ The Alliance was initially that the c uts will not enable the quarters American." sing CBC funding and guaran­ ched at a press conference in formed and is still run by the CBC to do what it is supposed Yet, the brief argues, "Cana­ teein g it over a five-year period Ottawa on Jan. 29 and featured CBC producers' association to to do." dians favour Canadian pra­ to a llow for planning. The Al­ author Pierre Berton, former mobilize public opinion in sup­ The Alliance and Friends are grams over American, if they liance a lso call ed for CBC TV-2. Ontario Lieutenant-Governor port of the CBC and to lobby for acting independently but ex­ are of equal production quality." Pauline McGibbon, novelist the Canadianization of CBC pect there will be extensive It lists audience ratings for Farley Mowat and columnist programming. liaison between the two regular and special programs Landmark leases Doris Anderson. In its press Within two weeks of the groups. The Alliance has pre­ which run from one million to conference, the Alliance launch of the Alliance, the pared an extensive "aware­ over twa-and-a-half million. TORONTO - Garth Drabinsky, warned that Canada was "in Friends of Public Broadcasting ness" kit entitled The Airwaves The list includes: The National president and chief executive danger of losing its cultural presented an open letter to Belong To The Canadian Pea­ 11.8 million), The Journal 11.6 officer of Cineplex Corpora­ sovereignty. The cuts to the arts Brian Mulroney signed by 1,300 pIe. The kit is being sent to MPs, million), Fifth Estate 11.5 mil- tion, announced Feb. 8 that community in general and to people coast-ta-coast. The the Standing Committee on lion), Fraggle Rock 11 .6 million), Cineplex has acquired 10 thea­ the CBC in particular threaten group called on the prime Cultu re and Communications, Tommy Hunter 11.5 m illion), tres with 22 screens from Land­ the existence of a Canadian minister not to make any finan­ and interested groups and Beachcombers 11.25 million), mark Cinemas on a long-term national identity precisely at a cial cuts " until a new mandate organizations. Hockey Night 12-3 million), lease arrangement. The thea­ time when that identity must is spelled out and approved by The kit consists of a series of Na ture of Things 11.25 million), tres are located in key markets be strengthened and reaffirm­ Parlia ment." papers exploring the crisis on Marketplace 11.25 million), in British Columbia, Alberta, ed. We are on the brink of Leading the Friends of Public Canadian airwaves and myths Danger Bay 11 million), Ma n Saskatchewan and Manitoba. losing our national dream." Broadcasting al'e columnist and facts about the CBC. One Alive II million). Included in the lease arrange- The Alliance urged that the and Tory insider Dalton Camp, paper, "What Can You Do ?", Specials that have proved ment are five indoor theatres broadcasting issue not "be­ historian Ramsay Cook, Satur­ urges readers to take action by enormously successful w ith with a total of 15 screens and come something determined in day Night publisher John Mac­ organizing local groups and audiences include : Cha utauqua 5 drive-ins with a total of 7 a back room or by a White Farlane, athlete Bruce Kidd writing to their MPs, the prime­ Girl 12.6 millions) ; Grey Fox 12.1 screens. Cineplex, which ac­ Paper written by a few 'experts.' and Ian Morrison, execu tive minister and the minister of millions); and made-for-TV- qui red the Odeon theatre It must become a natio nal director of the Canadian Asso­ Communications. movies Hockey Night 12.2 mil- chain last summer, now owns Dublic debate. Substantial ciation of Adult Education. The kit states that Canadian lions), Gentle Sinners, 12.3 mil- and/or operates 180 theatres in lions) and Charlie Grant's War, North America witb474 screens. the latter of which at 2 millions Landmark Cinemas remains outdrew the heavily hyped an active exhibitor retaining Robert Kennedy mini-series on control of 24 theatres with 34 CTV. screens in the west and the In the kit the'Alliance ar~ued Yukon.

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March 1985 - Cinema Canada/43 • CINE MAG • Quebec production plays to mixed reviews at annual Rendez-vous MONTREAL - The Rendez­ (and unpaid) labor is handing ever going to change if these Martial Ethier (666) or Michele optimistic by what I've seen vous du cinema quebecois, over the administrative baton people can't make the effort to Mercure and Josette Trepanier here. Even if many of the films Quebec's annual retrospective of the $55,000-budget retro­ come and see what's being (Bouches), the experimental are not very good, there's defi­ of the previous year's cinema­ spective, "we're not doing all done, to take the pulse of the documentary of Michel uimo­ nitely something going on." tographic production, offered that badly. In any case, this Rendez-vous, hear what peo­ the (Face a la camera), the ima­ Bergala's point of view was' a view of a cinema struggling hasn't gone on for eight years ple are saying, if only to make ginativeness of Marie Decary shared in the main by Montreal with great hesitation towards for nothing, although always better informed judgements? (La chevauchee rozel, the di­ film critic Michel Euvrard. new forms of filmic expression. under difficult conditions. There's no dialogue with the rection and screen writing of "Judging by what I've seen," he If there was consensus on "In terms of the state of Que­ agencies, only our monologue MarC-Andre Berthiaume's 36- told Cinema Canada, "you can the basis of the 15 features becois cinema, there's been a to them or theirs to us. After all, min u te drama Prenons la mer, no longer speak of Quebec screened during the Rendez­ real improvement at the fea­ these people put up the money; the sheer slickness of Denise cinema as one thing, there are vous, Jan. 29-Feb. 3, that the ture-level. Things are starting they should at least come hear Labrie's 27-minute drama now a plurality of Quebec feature remains the most dyna­ to move, and you can feel the what's being said." Demi-jour, or the brilliant im­ cinemas, If films like Les illu­ mic level of Quebecois cin~ma, young filmmakers saying, But, for Carre, the survival of provisations of Jacques Methe's sions tranquilles (Gilles Blais, there was as well a notic.eable 'Here we come.' And the wo­ the Rendez-vous is no longer hour-long drama Aux pieds de NFB) or Le dernier glacier dynamism in the animated, men are bringing a new look an issue. "There's a demand for la lettre. (Jacques Leduc and Roger experimen tal and dramatic that is going to force the men our films, both outside the pro­ "There is no longer a stan­ Frappier, also NFB) are still short, categories. But the docu­ who began the history of cine­ vince and outside Montreal, dard, no central type of film­ attempting to establish facts, mentary, the single largest ma here also to take a hard look that's simply not being met." making," says Bergala, "there other films reflect an emerging genre category, either short-or at themselves. We're really The reason is a simple one: are only the individual refe­ psychologism - the director's hour-long, either made-for TV between two looks in our film­ lack of means to distribute the rences of each filmmaker. So concern with self, family or or National Film Board pro­ making and if we can continue films, to advertise, or even to Lea Pool's Lafemme de ['hOtel with moral values, notably in the duced, is undergoing a severe producing more fiction, we have a paid staff. "I'm not refers to European cinema. women's films. Sometimes this crisis of identity. shouldn't be in too bad shape. saying the Rendez-vous should Mario, for instance, refers to an is done effectively, with a cer­ "[t takes a lot of courage to But it's up to the funding become a Festivals Bureau," international, Esperanto cine­ tain humor as in Diane Poi­ show a year's production," administrators who have the says Carre, "but it should exist ma. Each film is seeking its tras' Pense a ton desir (28 Rendez-vous guest, French power to determine the kind of on another basis than perma­ own reference,-and that creates min., video) or with a worrying filmmaker and Cahiers du ci­ cinema we're developing. nent anxiety and self-sacrifice. a scattered impression. It's so immobilism as in J'ai toujours nema critic Alain Bergala told "If the documentary today is There is a Quebecois cinema much easier in France: the reve d'aimer ma mere (Fran­ Cinema Canada. "If any natio­ experiencing real difficulty, and that's something worth major reference-points have cine Prevost, NFB, 56 mins.) nal cinema anywhere else dis­ and it is - there's no point knowing." all been established long ago; "It's as if the collapse of the p layed everything it's done it pretending it's not - that is in For instance, this means, to you can refer to them or against social project had freed some wouldn't be much better. Just part due to the fact that its mention the more notable of them; the references are shared. filmmakers to undertake a re­ imagine if in France they place has been taken from it. If the 87 films screened at the Here there are no common re­ newed formalistic research screened ail the documentaries you were a filmmaker in a Rendez-vous, the work of NFB ferences, there's greater dis­ that's potentially positive but made for the various ministries, genre that's been condemned animator Pierre Hebert (Chants persal. It's nobody's fault; it's for now is producing films that it would be even worse. Here to death, your creativity et danses du monde inanime­ structural. To the extent that are all atypical. La femme de the Rendez-vous want to show wouldn't be at its best. Ie Metro, Etienne et Sara) Quebec filmmakers no longer [,hotel is an atypical film; everything; I think that's good." "What shocks me the most is whose oeuvre was deservedly want their old references, the Jacques et Novembre is too." Bergala's praise, however, that the people in power, at awarded the Quebec Film Cri­ new ones are still purely ima­ Finally, the attempt to trans­ would not be shared by Mon­ Radio-Canada, at Radio-Que­ tics' Association $2500 prize ginary. late Quebec cinema's shifting treal film critic Richard Marti­ bec, at the Societe generale du for the best short- and medium­ "But when you see this, it images into printed words was neau. "We're a little country, a cinema and at Telefilm Cana­ short of the Rendez-vous. This means that something impor­ the subject of the Rendez-vous' little people, with a little cinema da, are not present at the also means the experimental tant is taking place. People are own award for the best piece of that's made with little bud­ Rendez-vous. How is anything work of young filmmakers like searching. I'm left feeling quite gets," Martineau despaired - after a grim day of viewing documentaries that seemed overwhelmingly either about fish or the ontological comple­ xities of women. However, even Martineau would be DROUGHT IN AFRICA roused to enthusiasm a couple of days later by Roger Cantin a nd Danyele Patenaude's half­ hour science-fiction short, L'objet. Held for the first time in January, the Rendez-vous drew about the same number of spectatOl's as the previous '83 autumn screening - 3200 tickets were sold for the Cinemathe­ que quebecoise' s near-300-seat theatre, including sell-out screenings for films like La femme de I'hotel, Lea Pool's a ward-winning feature that, on the Rendez-vous' opening day, captured its third critics' p rize. 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46/Cinema Canada - March 1985 • C IN E MA(i • BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN BEST SCREENPLA Y CB C producers The Bay Boy - Daniel Petrie The Bay Boy - Renee April cont. from p. 46 La Femme de I'hotel- Lea PooL Michel Langlois Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe - Nicole Pelletier Sonatine - Micheline Lanctot La Guerre des tuques - Huguette Gagne Unfinished Business - Don Owen dian Labour Code are our Isaac Littlefeathers - Wendy Hudolin rights and benefits. Ultimately Sonatine - Helene Schneider BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN OVERALL SOUND we have the right to withdraw The Bay Boy - David Appleby, Don White, Patrick Rousseau our services although that is BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTION Draw! - Dino Pigat, Richard Lightstone, Joe Grimaldi, highly unlikely to happen." La Femme de I'hotel - Lea Pool Austin Grimaldi The Association applied for Le Jour liS .•. " - Jean-Pierre Lefebvre La Guerre des tuques - Serge Beauchemin, Don White, certification last June. There Next of Kin - Atom Egoyan Austin Grimaldi was majority support, "def­ Sonatine - Micheline Lanctot Isaac Littleleathers - Garrell Clark, Christopher Tate, initely more than 50%", for the Unfinished Business - Don Owen David Appleby, Don White move. Viner would not say Mario - Bruce Nyznik, Richard Besse, Hans Peter Strobl exactly what percentage voted BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING for certification. The Associa­ Le Crime d'Ovide Ploufle - Monique Fortier BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING tion is now eligible to join the La Guerre des tuques - Andre Corriveau The Bay Boy - Charles Bowers, Peter Burgess Canadian Labour Congress. My Kind 01 Town - Frank Irvine cfe Draw! - Jim Hopkins The Association is currently La Guerre des tuques - C laude Langlois, Louise Cote engaged in disputing layoffs BEST MUSIC SCORE Isaac Littlefeathers - Peter Thillaye, Michael O'FarrelL with CBC management and in La Guerre des tuques - Germain Gauthier Michele Moses lobbying efforts to ensure CBC Isaac Littlefeathers - Paul Zaza Mario - David Evans, Wayne Griffin suffers no further cutbacks. Mario - Fran~ois Dompierre That's My Baby! - Michel B. Bordeleau Reno and the Doc - Betty Lazebnik Sonatine - Fran~ois Lanctot BEST THEATRICAL SHORT Walls - J. Douglas Dodd, Michael Oczko Charade - Jon Minnis I Think of You Often - Scott Barrie BEST ORIGINAL SONG Productivity and Performance by Alex K. - Warning: La Femme de I'hotel - Yves Lafferiere, Mal'jolene Nicholas Stiliadis, Syd Cappe Cinema Canada can be habit-forming. Morin, Paule Baillargeon ("Touch Me") La Terrapime - Michel Bouchard, Jacques Pettigrew So why not keep yoursellwell­ La Guerre des tuques - Germain Gauthier, Robert Leger, supplied? All you have to do Is fill Daniele Faubert ("L' Amour a pris son temps") BEST THEATRICAL DOCUMENTARY out the subscription coup&n In this Reno and the Doc - Betty Lazebnik, Charles Dennis Au Rythme de mon coeur - Jean-Pierre Lefebvre luue. ("A Little Piece of Forever") Hookers... on Davie - Hollv Dale, Janis Cole Raoul Wallenberg: Buried Alive - Wayne Arron, David Harel

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March 1985 - Cinema Canada/47 • C IN E MAC; • Oscar nominations give Canada the nod once· more TORONTO - For an unprece­ last October as part of the Glo­ dented second year in a row, bal Playhouse series. a n independently p roduced Other Canadian Oscar nomi­ Canadian drama has been nations include Paradise, an nominated for an Academ y ~FB effort by Ishu Patel and awar d in Los Angeles. The Charade, a first-time effort by Painted Door, produced by novice filmmaker Jon Minnis. At la ntis Films in collaboration Both are competing in the Best w ith The Na ti onal Film Board. Animated Short category. :\Iin­ has been nominated for best nis, a printe r by trade, studied film in the short tllm. live-action a nimation at Sherida n College category. Last year, Atlantis in Oakville. Charade won two won a n Oscar in the sam e cate­ awards at the CFT A awards gory for Boys and Girls. p r esentations last autumn. Michael MacMillan, head of Patel won an Oscar in the best Atlantis, told Cinema Canada animated short category in he was "delighted, absolutely 1978 for his film The Bead delighted" with the nomina­ Game. tion. " It's a really good film," he "HEAVEN'S GATE" "BUFFALO BILL" said. "We felt that way from the . verv beginning. It's better than Chaplin reruns get "SUPERMAN" "DAYS OF HEAVEN" most of them. It's very graphic, very filmic. It's a darn good Creative Exposure "SILVER STREAK" "THE GREY FOX" story with a powerful ending." "DEATH HUNT" "LAST DESPERADO" T he half-hour drama is TORONTO- Creative Exposure based on a s hort story by Sin­ will be r unning a retrospective "EUREKA" "PURE ESCAPE" clair Ross. It is a story of love, of Charlie Chaplin films at the "SPACE HUNTER" "DRAW" regret and death set in the Bloor Cinema in Toronto from "LOUISIANA" Prairies. The Painted Door was Mar. 15-21. In addition to seven "LE RUFFIAN" directed by Bruce Pi'ttman of his most famous feature "THE BOY IN BLUE" "APRIL FOOL" from a script by Joe Weisenfeld. films - City Lights, Modern "RUNAWAY" Line producer was Gillian Ri­ Times, The Gold Rush, The "CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR" chardson. cinematographer Kid, Limelight, The Circus, The was Savas Kalogeras, editor Great Dictator - the festival Margaret van Eedewijk and will include a 35mm theatrical original music was composed presentation of 27 short sub­ by Bruce Ley. Lead roles were jects produced between 1914 Box 33, LONGVIEW, ALBERTA, CANADA played by Linda Goranson, and 1923. Many of these films August Schellenberg and Eric have not been seen in 35mm in TOL 1 HO Peterson. over 30 years. The Painted Door was pro­ For the First National shorts, Tel. (403) 558-3916 or 243-5132 duced in association with Glo­ prints have been stuck from bal Television Network and safety stock copies of original with the participation of Tele­ Chaplin negatives still under film Canada. It was telecast the control of the Chaplin estate. To insure good quality 35mm prints of the earlier - -~--- , --_.. shorts, made between 1914 and 1917 when Chaplin was under On location, Studio III leads by contract to Keystone, Essanay and Mutual, a search was made of collections and archi­ dollars and sense. ves. STUDIO III located in Calgary, Alberta. Following the engagement Until now you shot outside in western Canada in Toronto, the retrospective • 20,000 square foot facility and shot inside back there. Expensive and will be presented in Montreal time-consuming. Now there's STUDIO III. Right • 10,000 square foot soundstage in April and in Vancouver in in the heart of the great outdoors, for only • office space; 24 hour security, prop and set storage May. • experienced crews available $500.00 a day. • 16mm film and mobile videotape STUDIO III, the largest sound studio in western equipment available Canada. That means your show can go on CFT Agoes wooing location from the first scene to the last take, at TORONTO - The Canadian Film a price that makes sound sense. and Television Association with a membership of over 160 com­ , Look into our space for your next panies is wooing the 20-mem­ production, Bryan Ellis: ber Canadian Independent (403) 246-7140, Film Caucus. Ironically, CIFC Calgary, AI was formed last year by film­ makers who felt their concerns as independent documentary filmmakers were not being addressed by the CFTA . CIFC activist Barbara Sweete noted that "CFTA has been really good to us since we set up our own organization. They call us to all their meetings and keep us informed." Sweete suspects CIFC will join CFTA while re­ taining its distinctive identity.

48/Cinema Canada - March 1985 • C IN E MAt; • Communications also produced did editing chores on Bridge to vestigative Productions in Tor­ A Better Idea, a h a lf-hour Terabithia which will air on onto directed ... Alberta produ­ PBS 'Wonderworks' series in cers for CBC Rock Wars seg­ SHOOT ALBERTA romantic comedy directed by February .. . Tri-Tone Music has m ents are Lawrie Seligman in Allan Stein and written by Tom produced a rock video, Turn It Calgary and , ~ rma nd Baril in by Linda Kupecek Crighton.. Doug MacLeod of Off for Ross CampbelL. Judy Edmonton.. Albe rta Theatre Bradshaw MacLeod a nd Asso­ The ACCESS Network inaugur­ commercial stations, and Haiven is back from Nicaragu~ Projects has signed an agree­ ciates in Calgary reports the ated its new satellite service CKUA AM-FM, the province­ where she and a four-person ment w ith HBW/ Toth Co­ group is tackling a half-hour Sunday, Jan. 13, with an evening wide radio service. crew shot With Our Own Two Productions ... Marc Pouliot of documentary on the Canadian of programming highlighted ACCESS General Manager Hands, a 26-minute documen­ Montreal was a ppointed Olym­ climb of Rakaposhi in the Kar­ by the premiere broadcast of Ron Brown notes that ACCESS tary produced in association pic arts manager by OCO'88, kOl'am forCBC, with a March31 The Komagata Maru Incident. is frequ ently called "the best w ith the NFB Northwest Studio, the n resigned due to potential airdate. Also in the works is a With 84 hours of programming kept secret in Alberta:' although about Canadian farmers help­ conflict of interest... And CTV half-hour drama, with MacLeod a week now distributed by the it has a 15 per cent weekly ing their Nicaraguan counter­ and Olympic organizers in Cal­ busy in the meantime provid­ Anik C3 satellite, the provin­ reach to its audience (compared parts. Tom Radford was execu­ gary have finally s igned the ing location services to o ut-of­ cially funded corporation sup­ to a similar percentage for PBS). tive producer, and Haiven was contract making that network province shoots and Bradshaw plies and produces education­ Comparing production to writer a nd originator of the the host broadcaster for the off to Montreal to direct a low­ al, informa tional and cultural acquisition offuture programs, project. Peter Raymont of In- 1988 Winter Games. programming in a "footprint" Brown says that 25 per cent of budget fea ture ... Marke Slipp covering all Alberta. ACCESS the material broadcast will be of Pegasus Productions in Ed­ leases a full transponder on produced in Alberta. monton is slated to direct a CAMBIUM FILM Anik C3, which hovers in sta­ half-hour docu on architect & VIDEO PRODUCTIONS LTD. tionary orbit 22,300 miles above Meanwhile, although• no major Douglas Cardinal for CFRN the Equator. Programs are features are shooting at the Television. Meanwhile, Slipp introduces its has finished editing a 20- transmitted from an uplink in moment, the industry rolls minute drama directed by the Edmonton studio to the along ... AMPIA Festival '85 will 3/4 INCH OFFLINE EDITING SUITE satellite, then to the Alberta take over the Edmonton film Tom Dodd for Alberta Agri­ We offer a fully equipped facility at bargain prices footprint. The signal is picked and video scene from Feb. 12- culture ... AMPIA has elected a for your OFFLINE EDITING needs. up and distributed by Alberta's 16 ... Mike Douglas of Douglas new executive and moved into cable companies. The satellite Communications in Edmonton a new building (the McLeod COST of Facilities with Editor ...... $50.00 per hour service complements the Media has written and directed a Building). Michael Hamm of Resource Centre (which dubs promotional film on the petro­ Frame 30 is the new prez, Dale COST of Facilities without Editor ... .. $40.00 per hour Handley is Edmonton vice­ and distributes audio, video, leum industry for Alberta Eco­ president; Garry Toth is Cal­ CAMBIUM also offers a variety of 1/2 inch and 3/4 inch print and computer software nomic Development, as well as gary vice-president ; and Allan videotape transfer services. for educational purposes) ; field serving as production manager Stein and Marke Slipp are services ; early morning chil­ on five national commercials directors-at-large ... Chris Tate Special daily and weekly rates available. dren's programming on local in the past months. Douglas Please give us a calf for more information and your booking.

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However, as all means more than taking ad­ shareholders have rights to re­ vantage of tax deductions. Pro­ ceive dividends from their RECKLESS DISREGARD per tax-planning involves or­ company, the use in whole or SEEING THINGS. Defective Vision ganizing one's legal affairs and in part of dividend payments THRILLKILL relationships with a view to which are subject to different taxation consequences. This tax rules may reduce the taxa­ kind of foresight is not only for tion of dividend income. the high and mighty, but also It is the company that con­ TONY MASON the average individual as well. tracts and, on a legal basis, The film business presents deals with producers. Fees are unique challenges in this re­ paid to the company and be­ BIG DEAL. RSL gard to all of the industry's come income-taxable in the JOHN KASTNER's STREET COMEDY members. Working on several company's hands. 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Where you and will not be eligible to use live may also affect your tax the fuller gambit of business situation. An employee is sub­ DENIS SIMPSON deductions in order to deter­ ject to pay income-tax generally mine taxable income; for in the province where he has example, using a part of one's his residence. Consequently THE PARK IS MINE house as a so-called office. The while federal income-tax rates THE FRANKENSTEIN FACTOR apply coast-to-coast, provincial up-side is the access to unem­ FLYING ployment insurance benefits income-tax rates vary from pro­ (or is this pessimism or merely vince-to-province. An emplo­ realism ?) . Self-employed indi­ yee living in a province which LILIANE STILWELL viduals have more extensive enjoys a lower rate of income business deductions but have tax will have obvious benefits. ONTARIO BICENTENNIAL SHOWCASE more to concern themselves Self-employed people, however, with to preserve the status in may be subject to paying pro­ THE CLUB an industry where status is vincial income-tax in the pro­ often vague. Most film people vinces where they carryon income-generating operations. KAY TREMBLAY try to have the benefits of un­ All of this is naturally subject to employment insurance while special rules and exemptions, desiring the broader range of FOR THE RECORD. The Front Une but it is interesting to note to business deductions. This best­ JUDGE. Final Cut what extent even the selection of-both-worlds approach is of a home may affect the THE BEACHCOMBERS exemplified by the common industry term "free-lancer." amount of income-taxes to be Unfortunately the tax depart­ paid. RUDY WEBB ment does not acknowledge a The choice of residence has middle ground. The taxpayer is even graver consequences either an employee or self-em­ when the taxpayer lives out­ CATS ployed, depending on the facts side of Canada. Canadians who SEEING THINGS of his individual situation. are non-residents in Canada Film people wishing to enjoy mayor may not be subject to self-employed status must act Canadian income-taxes. Those GREGORY PETERSON DIRECTOR as self-employed individuals. living in the United States, for Their contracts are drafted to example, may find their ultim­ GRAND THEATRE COMPANY reflect this and do not contain ate choice of taxation deter­ STRA TFC>RD FESTIVAL terms or phrases applicable to mined by tax treaties that take employees. They invoice for into account principal resi­ their services, even if the ac­ dence or the length of stay in count is a formality. They oper­ Canada during any 12-month ate using a trade-name or period. Furthermore, non-re­ Donald martin. 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March 1985 - Cinema Canada/51 • CIME MAt; • YORK UNIVERSITY I FINE ARTS. Spectra leading company on classics front . .. . TORONTO - Spectrafilm presi­ company but the numbers effect saving, 'pay me X dollars dent Barry Young reports were horrifying." With Spectra, up-front, I don't care about that his distribution company he noted, you were dealing anything else.' This is increas­ is now the premiere North with a ' strategic or ripple re­ ingly foreign to Spectra's busi­ American "classics" distributor lease across North America ness philosphy." handling art and specialty ""ith costs running from $100,000 Asked if Spectra is paying its films. to $500,000 ; you weren't dealing way, Young responded that it In a frank and wide-ranging with a $5 million prints-and-ad was "give or take $100,000- interview with Cinema Cana­ campaign. $150,000" da, Young revealed how Spec­ When Spectra entered the The full interview with tra, wholly owned by the Skyld market two years ago the going Young including a fascinating Group which packages and was tough. "The amounts re­ glimpse into the film financing Summer/Fall '85 markets tax-deferral films to quired for North American activities of Skyld, will appear investors, entered the "clas­ rights were not conducive to in a forthcoming issue of Cine­ • Four year degree programs sics" market and within two making a profit." Producers ma Canada. • Film/Video production and film short years pushed past the six were pricing themselves out of or seven other major players. the market. Spectra, said TORONTO - The Sports Net­ studies He noted that most of the majors Young, was more interested in work (TSN) has scored another • Graduate Studies (Master of Fine "classics" divisions have re­ "being a partner with the pro­ first with the signing of an Arts) in production and film duced their buying activity to ducer in exploiting the film." exclusive three-year agreement studies under half-a-dozen films. "Spec­ He added that Spectra "will not with the Canadian Amateur tra," he said, "intends to acquire take all the risk of a North Ame­ Swimming Association to air • SUMMER program: day courses 12 to 16 films over the next six rican release. Our deals are major swimming events in in TV and film production and months." increasingly designed so that Canada. Michael Lansbury, screenwriting (May-June; July­ Young said that Skyld be­ the producer and we are de­ vice-president of program­ came involved with Spectra as lightfully happy with the back­ ming, said that "this agreement August). See brochure for "the lowest-risk, lowest cash­ end." represents the first time since complete details. flow-intensive way of establish­ He said that Spectra has the Olympic Games in Los ing ourselves in the distribu­ turned down a couple of pic­ Angeles that viewers across Programs also in Dance, Inter­ tion business." He admitted tures "which look like they will Canada will have a chance to disciplinary Arts, Music, Theatre, that Skyld had "contemplated make substantial monies be­ see our top OlympiC swimmers and Visual Arts. a broader-based distribution cause the producer was in in competition on television." For further information, contact:­ Room 206A, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University, 4700 Keele St., North York, Ont., Canada M3J IP3. Tel. (416) 667-3237 YOU SHOULD PUT US IN YOUR NEXT PICTURE ALe You have highly specialized insurance needs and we have the know-how to put it all together. RENTALS From negative film and videotape, to animal and A DIVISION OF livestock insurance. ALEX L. CLARK LIMITED From props, sets and wardrobe to boats and helicopters. For 25 years, Thomas 1. Hull Insurance Limited has been part of the Film and Broadcasting Industry, providing creative solutions for creative problems. We'll produce realistic estimates for your budget and work to get you the best rates available. Professional equipment A 'phone call to Alan Mote or John Head is all it takes Complete editing rentals to get us rolling. - package deal available HULL Complete lighting rentals INSURANCE Short-term/ long-term GROUP Competitive prices Video recorders/editors Roya; &;g":" Pta.!.?, S{,i.:th -f<:Jwer, Bu lk erasers 28th, Fk>OL P,O. B.ox 126, Stellavox audio -(orontt)\()ntBf~O, ¥\4~SJ .2J~:~ recorders Tripods, booms, dollies Special effects ALC DIRECT LINE (416) 255-8598

52/Cinema Canada - Marett 1985 • (;:IME MAC; • gand, cinema consultant for da-France agreements may the Council of Europe, and a serve to counter-balance the Masse blitzes Paris, Telefilm opens shop recognized authority on the domination of the Americans, MONTREAL - The opening of a for all projects accepted in a bomb. Entitled The Race to the relationships between Euro­ and they felt that Masse's Paris Telefilm Canada office in Paris given year. Bomb, the series will be finan­ pean program producers and initiatives took on special im­ has been welcomed by pro­ In addition, the ministers ced by ABP in conjunction with the American film industry. portance in this context. ducers from Quebec as an en­ inaugurated France Animation, France's TF1 and Italy's RAI 2, For many observers, the Cana- couragment that their special the largest animation studio in and the presidents of the two interests will · now be met. Europe. The studio is a run by a television networks, - respec­ Modeled on the film Canada Canadian/French corporation tively Herve Bourge and Pea Di Roberl Wylam office set up in Los Angeles founded at the initiative of Berthe Gambini - joined Green­ several years ago and directed OCTET (an agency of the berg in the announcement. by Roland Ladouceur - who French ministry of Culture) The official co-producers of 1932-1985 created the concept of a pro­ and RMC-Audiovisuel (a divi­ the series are Ronald Cohen Robert Wyiam, independent Cancer Society, Harlequin En­ motional office for the Cana­ sion of Radio Monte-Carlo), Productions (MontrealJ and La TV/ film director. scriptwrite r terprises and the National Film dian industry and who worked and which regroups several Societe Philippe Dussart (Paris). and film editor, die d in Welles­ Board. His editing credits in­ in the L.A. office for three years other partners: the Societe Fi­ Claude Heroux will overse e ley Hospital, Toronto, on Jan. 5, cluded episodes of The Ten - the Telefilm Paris office was nanciere de la Radiodiffusion, things for ABP. Canadian Ton\' 1985. Thousand Days War for inaugurated Jan. 8 by Cana­ the Societe Fran~aise de Pro­ Sheer will write the series with Tl'uly independent of spirit, Michael Maciear, a TV pilot dian minister of Communica­ duction, Antenne 2, Les Edi­ France's Jean-Fran<;ois Delas­ Bob Wvlam's buoyant, slightly with Patdck McNee, and work tions Marcel Masse during a tions Casterman and Crawley sus who will also direct three irreveran t personality propel­ in Stockholm, Hollywood and busy week in the French capital. Films of Ottawa which is now episodes. Paul Almond will le d him through a life of initia­ London. On stage he directed Masse' s Paris stay was merged with the animation direct the remaining three. ting pro jects, exploring artistic the Canadian premiere of marked by several important group Atkinson. Gilbert Wol­ Masse was present during avenues, and practising his I Simon Gray's Butley. initiatives for the Canadian mark will serve as president of the announcement by Green­ craft. A m emorial gathering was film and video industry. On the company. berg and, at week's end, all the Born in Edinburg, he studied held on a recent bright, snowy Jan. 10 he met with French The ministers also confirmed coproduction agreements be­ architecture there at the Col­ Sunday afte rnoon in Toronto . minister of Culture Jack Lang the creation of the France­ tween France and Canada lege of Art. His film career Members of the Canadian to sign an agreement "Con­ Canada Cinema and Audiovi­ seemed to have taken on re­ started with the BBC in 1956, Parlour Singers (who he direc­ cerning the promotion of Film sual Award. Every other year, newed importance, spelling and he then went on to Asso­ ted) and other singers, actors, and Video Co-production Pro­ prize money of $10,000 will be the way of the future for many ciated TeleVision. In the '60s, and many friends, paid tribute jects in the field of Animation" awarded to two "creators" Roland Ladouceur is busy re­ with colleagues, he formed in song and speech. Champa­ which extends the various co­ (screenwriters, composers, ci­ creating his L.A. office in Paris, and ran the Scandinavian gne flowed, the fire crackled - production accords to cover nematographers or directors) writing notes and attending Theatre Company based in Bob have loved it. animated films. Canadian pro­ who have made an important events to build bridges between Oslo and Stockholm. ducers are now eligible for a contribution to French/Cana­ the French production com­ He made films for such maximum of $200,000 for a dian coproductions. munity and the Canadians. At diverse organizations as the Pat Thompson • majority coproduction, and Harold Greenberg, president the Festival of French Cinema selective financial aid is avail­ of Astral Bellevue Pathe, was in Grenoble, Jan. 23-30, Ladou­ able to each coproducing part­ also present in Paris Jan. 11 to ceur participated on a paneL ner in a percentage identical to announce production of a spelling out common objectives the budgetary responsibility of major television series about between European Cinema each partner. A maximum of the events that led to the and Canadian Cinema. The $500,000 will be made available development of the atomic panel was run by Claude De- CINEMA _C~_------"A~------""~e A D A

The film is set in the not too­ Born in Flames distant future. Care Bears from bound volumes cover Born In Flames is being dis­ at the Parallel tributed by Cinema Libre. Nelvana gets day Canadian cinema from

MONTREAL - Lizzie Borden's Calgary filmmakers and date launch cove r-to-cove r (1972-1983) 1983 feminist sci-fi feature Born TORONTO - Opening in over Bound volumes of all but the first seven issues In Flames will be screening at honor own for merit 1,000 theatres across Canada of Cinema Canada are now available. the Cinema Parallele Mar. 1-14, CALGARY - Eric James, Jan on March 29, The Care Bears Vol. 1 has sold out, and Vol. 3 is a limited edition and Mar. 15-28. Blackie and Rick Garbutt were Movie wiII be launched by of 60 copies, while recent volumes are limited Screening times are 7:30 and honored by the Motion Picture Astral Films in Canada and The to 50 copies each. nine. For the Mar. 15-28 screen­ Society of Calgary at its Feb. 12, Samuel Goldwyn Company in Due to scarcity of individual issues, ings, though, Born In Flames meeting for the contribution the USA. Vol. 8 is a limited edition of 40 copies. will only be shown at nine. they have made to the organi­ The animated feature, based New York filmmaker Borden zation. on the greeting card characters, Vol. 1 (1972) Sold Out was the editor for the acclaimed Founded just one year ago, Vol. 2 (Nos. 8-14) 1973-74 $40 was produced by Nelvana Ltd., Vol. 3 (Nos. 15-20) 1974-75 $50 U.S. independent documentary the filmmakers, group was features the voices 'Of Mickey Vol. 4 (Nos. 21-30) 1975-76 $35 From Mao to Mozart: Isaac created to foster profeSSional Rooney and Georgia Engel and Vol. 5 (Nos. 31-40) 1976-77 $35 Stern in China. standards, to promote busi-· was directed by Arna Selznick. Vol.6 (Nos. 41-50) 1977-78 $35 Born In Flames tells the ness for the Calgary area and to Working under producers Mi­ Vol. 7 (Nos. 51-59) 1978-79 $35 Vol. 8 (Nos. 60-72) 1979-80 $60 story of the feminist revolt provide the community with a chael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert Vol. 9 (Nos. 73-80) 1980-81 $35 against the social-democratic "social vehicle for communica­ and Clive Smith, 70 animators Vol. 10 (Nos. 81-90/91) 1981-82 $35 government established after tion," according to current completed the film in just nine Vol. 11 (Nos. 92-100) 1982-83 $35 the next American Revolution. president Rick Benwick. months.

Mar<;h 1985 - Cinema Canada/53 , .' ·1 v,,", • C IN E MAti • quickly dismisses the idea. "A sell, sell, sell," says Broome. lot of distributors have gone She has three salespeople Kinetic scouts viable product bankrupt doing production," mainly working the phones. she says. The only way she Twice a year the company at­ ",ould get into that end is if she tends the industry's main mar­ :ould purchase something that kets : Geneva Park in April and as distribution business goes sky high iuccessfully combines both the Banff Western Showcase in iistribution and production. November/ December. The TORONTO - Last year, educa­ 350 copies since 1981 at $775 a into a first-time deal with Kine­ In fact, she has her eye on an marketing.is backed up by a tional distributor Kinetic Films copy. tic for Children of Alcohol American outfit, Churchill heavy mailing program. Early grew by 50% . This year presi­ A Canadian film that shows which adds to a growing library Films. "It has a strong line of in February, they completed a dent Frances Broome expects a signs of becoming a best seller on alcoholism. our type of film. They know all 10,000 mailing to various alco­ 30% increase, with business is Finding Out written and di­ Broome sees the NFB acqui­ the markets. And the produc­ hol groups and organizations pushing sales well over $1 mil­ rected by Susan Murgatroyd sition as a breakthrough, a re­ tion side is already set up." Dis­ across North America. lion. She says that "we're going and produced by Paul Caul­ cognition of her credibility in cussions on the acquisition are For the future, in addition to to go sky high in the States." field. The film examines the the educational market. still in the very early stages. expansion plans for the Statps A little publicized success taboo subject of incest and With the shortage of films In the meanwhile, Kinetic and Australia, Broome would story in Canadian distribution, family sexual abuse. Broome has 'been tempted to remains --a strongly sales­ like to develop ille French Kinetic operates in the non­ The NFB has just entered enter into production but focussed company. "We're all market in Canada. theatrical sector handling a large catalogue of educational and social concern films. It distributes in Canada, the United States, where it has an office in Buffalo which will be moved to New York, Australia, where Broome will be opening an office in the near future, and South Africa. Kinetic's major problem is a desparate shortage of good films. Broome is always on the lookout for suitable material and will always risk handlinga ~' '{"', ~ product. "If we're not sure, Car Jumps, Rotts, '!;pins, Cr we'll try it," Broome tolQ Cine­ ma Canada. "We always give it our best shot. We don't know PreCision Driving I AU Vehicles which films will take off." She points to the success of ~tunt Fighting / Sta~C; ~bat Lynx Film Productions' Who Cares, Anyl-\ray, a one-off effort Mo~orcycle'" & Bicycle Stunt_~ describing the work of the ,V"< " Toronto Humane Society which High Falls. / Stajr has done tremendously well in the States. It hit a particular Horseba'~k RL~!1{11tk~ niche about pet care which • '!$ .. was not covered by any other film. Jite Gap~ .~uJi Bur~l, i'~~~'.- Broome's top-selling film is '

MONTREAL - Film fi nancier Acrobatics and real estate developer Ge­ rald Schneider has expanded Diving the thrust of his company Inter­ continental Film Finance Corp. (IFFC) to include distribution. Carmela Tutino, past executive assistant to Denis Heroux at ICC, will head that department. Schneider is one of the backers of the Losique-Heroux group in the promotion of the Cite de Cinema. Masse to CeTA

OTTAWA- The Canadian Cable Television Association an­ nounced that Communications Minister Marcel Masse will deliver the keynote address to the Association's annual con­ vention to take place in Toronto Apr. 9-11 . Also delivering a spe­ cial address to the group will be CRTC chairman Andre Bu­ reau.

54/Cil'lema Canada - March 19.8tl C IN E MAt; • . • British partners. He was put on second run on TVOntario. Another compli cated inter­ to Primedia. With pre-sales to Primedia is continuing its national co-production is Coproductions for Primedia Glen Warren in Canada and collaboration with Durrell on Frontier which has French HBO in the States, the project two other series : a half-hour and British co-producers and TORONTO - Pat Ferns, presi­ It was his European connec­ was well under way. But Ferns family series on Russia ; and pre-sales in France, Italy, Ger­ dent ofPrimedia, hopes 1985 is tions which led to a co-produc­ says, "Countdown was in the one on animal communica­ many, Holland, Britain and the year he can devote fuJI time tion with American producers works before the (C anadian tions, Ourselves and Other Canada. The six one-hour to filmmaking, Over the past Fred Barzyk and David Loxton, content) rules changed. It Animals. episodes will begin shooting in year he has been heavily invol­ Countdown to Looking Glass, would be much tougher to get Also in the works is a 13-part May. ved in lobbying government, a nuclear holocaust film star­ it through next time." drama series for children, The Primedia is also involved in CBC and CRTC on behalf of ring Patrick Watson, recently Primedia's third new year Little Vampire. A British­ "a mass of one-off things." independent Canadian pro­ aired on First Choice*Super­ te lecast was the 13-part nature German co-production w ith Ferns says "gross production ducers, As co-chairman, with channeL Loxton, a producer at series Amateur Naturalist hos­ Superchannel and Telefilm volume was S4-5 million last Stephen Roth of RSL, of the WNET in New York who also ted by Gerald Durrell. First run involvement, it will shoot in year a nd will be substantially Association of Canadian Film works independently, sought on CBC in late1983, it's having a Edmonton. higher this year." and Television Producers, he has been actively writing briefs and meeting with Marcel Masse, minister of Communicatins, Pierre Juneau, president of the National Office CBC, and other members of the Department of Communica­ Film Board national du film tions, As if that weren't enough, last September Ferns took on the presidency of the Banff of Canada du Canada Television Foundation which runs the Banff Television Fes­ tival, slated for June 2-8 this year, Ferns feels the Founda­ tion plays a very important job to which he can make some contribution. In addition to the ------INIWsf------Festival which, he says," attracts the movers and shakers in the THE OSCARS industry", the Foundation " is For the fourth consecutive year, taking a leadership position in National Film Board productions professional development." have received nominations from Meanwhile Primedia, the the Academy of Motion Picture production company he estab­ Arts and Sciences. This year's lished in 1972 with partner nominations are Ishu Patel's Para­ Richard Nielsen, has been for­ dise, for best achievement in the ging ahead. The company saw the arrival of 1985 with a bang, animation short category; and The with telecasts of three major Painted Door for best achievement Primedia productions, in the short live-action category. The Painted Door is produced by Bold Steps, the 90-minute Atlantis Films Ltd. in collaboration performance documentary about the National Ballet, co­ with the N FB and with the participa­ produced with the BBC, was tion of Telefilm Canada and the shown nationally on the CBC Global Television Network. last January. The way the proj­ A blend of animation techniques, ect was put together illustrates Paradise tells the story of an envious Primedta's operating style of blackbird and the lesson he learns linking into a network of inter­ national connections. when he tries to transform himself into something he is not. First March 23 and 24. Other screenings, gories : best performance by an About a year and a half ago Choice will telecast Paradise on in cities across Canada will be actress, Isabelle Meijias ; best per­ Ferns sold BBC Newcomers. March 25th. Schedule to be an­ announced soon. formance by an actor, Peter Spence ; While in London, he met a free­ nounced. best cinematography, Douglas Kief­ lance director who for a long THE GENIES time had wanted to do a film The Painted Door is a half-hour fer; best direction, and best screen­ about the National Ballet, drama based on a short story by Two National Film Board feature play, Don Owen. In Unfinished Ferns became involved, They Sinclair Ross. One of the Global films have been nominated for this Business, Owen returns to the put together some footage Playhouse drama series, The Painted year's Genie awards. Mario, directed rebellious teenagers he filmed which they showed to a BBC Door stars August Schellen berg, by Jean Beaudin, garnered seven twenty years ago in the N FB pro­ producer who "was knocked Linda Goranson and Eric Peterson. nominations, including best motion duction Nobody Waved Goodbye. out by what he saw." A deal Producers are Michael MacMillan picture; best performance by an was born. Incidentally, in an actor, Xavier Norman Petermann; unusual move, Primedia has and Janice Platt; director Bruce best achievement in art direction, licensed ancillary rights to CBC Pittman. The Painted Door will be QUEBEC CRITICS' AWARD Enterprises. Ferns has been a retelecast on Global-TV at 9 :30 Denis Boucher; best cinemato­ Pierre Hebert's experimental work, strong advocate of privatizing p.m., Sunday, March 24th. Screen­ graphy, Pierre Mignot; best music Chants et danses du monde inanime the merchandising arm of the ings of Paradise and The Painted score, F r an~ois Dompierre ; best - Le Metro, received l'Association CBC. He says that "Bold Steps Door and the other two Canadian overall sound, Bruce Nyznik, Rich­ quebecoise des critiques de cinema was very specialized and CBC films nominated for Academy ard Besse, Hans Peter Strobl; and award for best film in the short and bettered other offers," Awards, Charade by Jon Minnis and best sound editing, David Evans, medium length film category. A mix Wayne Griffin. International co-production Gary Bush's Children of Soong Ching of film techniques- live-action and is Primedia's lifeblood, "We're Ling, are schedu led for March 18 at Unfinished Business, an N FBI an imation - and music, H ebert's well connected into France the St. Lawrence Centre in Toronto ; Zebra Films co-production received film is an impress ionistic view of and Germany," says Ferns, "We at the National Arts Centre in five nominations, Directed by Don life o n the metro. Th e award and a have better contacts than any­ Ottawa, March 24th, and at the Owen, Unfinished Business was $2,3 00.00 cas h prize were present­ body in England. I may only be NFB's Cinema Main in Winnipeg nominated in the following ca t e- ed February 12th. in England five times CI year bu t the impression is I'm living N FB Offices in Canada: Headquarters - Montreal (5 14) 333-345 2 National Capital -Ottawa (6 13) 996-4259 there. It's a question of sys­ Pacific region - Vancouver (604) 666-1716 Quebec region - Montreal (514) 283-4823 tematically keeping in touch." Prairie region - Winnipeg (204) 949-4129 Atlantic region - Halifax (902) 426-6000 Ferns prefers European deals Ontario region -Toronto (4 16) 369-4094 plus offices in most major cities keeping the U.S. deals for "the upside."

March 1985 - Cinema Canada/55 • CINE MAt; • monton Jh e three-pack was additional outlay by the con­ only launch ed in December: sumer for the converter. Superchannel in fight with SM ATV pirates The same was true in Calgary Haave, however, is confident and an important system just " that it is a d elayed situation" TORONTO -Th e mushrooming resolved w ith a fi ve-year agree­ Superch an nel, MuchMusic outsid e Va n co u ~e r . The result w hich will sort itself out in the of unlicen sed sate llite d is­ m ent signed by the Greater and Th e Sports Network be­ has been late e ntry into the near future. tribution syste m s p irating Winnipeg Cablevision com­ ginning March 1. market for Superchannel. By the e nd of December, 1984, American TV signals is severely pany an d Manitoba Telephone In other western cities, the The p roblem is compounded Superchannel was up to 160,000 hampering the growth of Syste m s on Jan. 31. Cable sub­ cable compa nies either la un­ in the w est by low-pe netration subscribers. Haave said the Superchanne l, the west' s scribers in the GWC region w ill ch e d late or are still not ready ra tes for converters. Subscrib­ ne twork n eed s upwards of movie channe l. be able to receive First Choice" to offer pay te levision. In Ed- ing to pay therefore involves an 200,000 to break-even. Since relaunch last Septe m­ ber, Superchannel has grown just over 4% compared to 28% for First Choice. In an inter­ view with Cinema Canada, Luther Haave, Superchannel general manager, said that "unauthorized distribution of foreign services is threatening the basic business of cable operators. Many have seen 400 and 700-suite apartment blocks Balance Vlith cancel basic service and install satellite distribution systems to give their residents a full menu of stolen U.S. services." He added that the industry Cinegelon feels a great deal of frustration when " government stands by and does not prosecute these people who operate side-by­ location and side and in competition with licensed operators fulfilling conditions of license." He said cable operators are reluctant to upgrade plant without youVion't "knowing what's in store for the future." A recent survey by the Cana­ dian Cable Television Associa­ tion shows that in the l8-month have to do a period from June 1983 to December 1984, satellite mas­ ter antenna television (SMATV) operations increased by 300% from 386 to 1,118. The number balancing act of suites serviced by SMATVs has gone up 250% from 31,461 to 77,904. By far the greatest growth in SMATV operations occurred in w estern Canada at the dailies. which saw a 331 % jump for the survey period . By contrast On­ tario reported only a 22% rise. Th e CCTA cla ims that at Cinegel eliminates one embarrassing scene from the dailies. The one present growth rates the cable where you have to explain unbalanced color to the producer. industry cou ld be losing $104 Instead of "fixing it in the lab", this Academy Award winning family of million in revenue a n n ua lly. tools corrects daylight, arc light, tungsten , fluorescent and HMI sources However, communications consultant Laurie Edwards of right on the set. Nordicity is skeptical of long­ The Cinegel line, which includes .color-correcting gels and 17 different term threats posed by SM ATV diffusion materials, was developed over many years by system s. He told Cinema Cinematographers, lighting directors and Rosco's speCialists. It has pro­ Canad a tha t, w hile th ey are "cream skinners," there are a ven itself totally effective - on location and in the studio - during number of other problems thousands of motion picture and television productions. with SMATV. " You're back to For a free swatchbook and technical handbook, contact your rental an antenna that needs servi­ house, Rosco dealer or Rosco. cin g," he said, noting that American pay is moving to scrambled signals that will limit piracy activities. Finally, he said, SMATVs do not provide th e basic local cable chan nels. Wh en th ese factors come into Cinegel: play, "the real appeal goes out the w indow." SMATVs h ave only been part The Great Equalizer of the problem for Superchan­ nel which has been facing an uphill battle for subscriptions. Until recently, premium TV was not available to roughly rosco ha lf of Manitoban su bscribers 1271 Denison Street #66 Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R 485 • 4161475-1400 because of a dispute between Also In New York, Hollywood, London, Madrid, and Tokyo. the cable company and the Manitoba telephone system. The dispute, about ownership of scrambling and d escram­ bling equ ipment, has just been

56/Cinema Canada - March 1985 • CINE MAt; • SuperS alive and well in Montreal festival Ottawa's Adams expands MONTREAL - 150 films from A recent successful Canadian There will also be a wide selec­ some 15 countries, French film­ example of this tendency is tion of recent SuperS work OTTA W A - Increasingly SuperS "The Super8 gauge is the maker Rene Allio in person, Raymond Dupuis' Apocalypse from Latin America. is making new inroads as a pro­ best one for film training, for and growing world-wide in­ Carle, a SuperB documentary The festival is competitive at fessional gauge. Raymond video productions requiring terest.in SuperS filmmaking as on Gilles Carle's shooting of the intercollegial and national Dupuis' recent Radio-Canada film techniques, and for in­ a cost-effective alternative Maria Chapdelaine, aired in levels this year, offering in profile of Gilles Carle, aired dustrial and amateur applica­ highlight Quebec's sixth Inter­ January on Radio-Canada. Carle . addition a special program on Jan. 8, was made on SuperS, tions needing permanent high national SuperB Film Festival. himself will be screening a curre nt perspectives in Quebe­ a nd the CBC has produced resolution images at low cost," Held Feb. 19-24 at the Cine­ never previously seen Super8 cois Super8 filmmaking and a severaL hour-long specials on says Adams president T.v. matheque quebecoise, Festival demo entitled Le Pare, program of sponsored films. Super8, saving costs by as Adams. "So there is value in it programming spans the range From around the world, the As in previous years, the best much as 60%. for any level of filmmaker." from the feature-length drama Festival will screen Portuguese films of the festival will tour six One company that is expan­ Since 1974, Adams and asso­ to the experimental short and filmmaker Jose Carlos Mar­ Quebec cities in the month ding serve increased profes­ ciates has specialized in SuperS the socially-conscious docu­ ques' clandestinely shot Julio following. sional interest in SuperS is film copying and striping and mentary from countries as de Matos", Hospital? on the Organized by l' Association Ottawa-based Adams and particularly in the transfer of diverse as Australia to Vene­ 'treatment' subjected to pa­ pour Le jeune cinema quebe­ Associates which recently SuperS film to video. zuela. According to festival tients in a Lisbon mental hos­ cois, the festival is sponsored acquired Elmo Canada's Super8 director Michel Payette, this pital. From young French film­ this year by three Quebec business and now distribute celebration of SuperS's diver­ makers comes Avant la nuitby government ministries (Leisure, Elmo cameras and projectors, sity results from the medium's Michel Gayraud and Michele International Relations, and Elmo editors, WUrker and Mi­ SuperEcran greater financial accessibility, Solans, as well as Paul Allio's Education), Telefilm Canada, nette splicers, splicing tapes and adding that "more and more Lettre a Elise, both selected at the Societe generale du cinema, accessories. Adams also recent­ pulls back from West filmmakers are blowing SuperB Cannes last year. From Bel­ the Cinematheque quebecoise, ly became Canadian distributor to 16 or 35 mm or transferring gium, the Fest will screen Mark­ the Office franco-quebecoise for Braun and Bauer SuperS OTTAWA - The Canadian Ra­ their films ' to video for in­ Frederic Van de Voorde's Sale pour La jeunesse, France's Con­ cameras and projectors, which dio-television and Telecom­ creased access to commercial Harry _ casse la baraque, a sulate-general and Kodak were without a distributor in munications Commission markets." SuperS spoof of film nair. Canada. Canada. (CRTC) has approved Super Ecran's application to drop its service in western Canada. With only 200 subscribe,rs to the French-language movie­ channel in the west, ail in Bri­ tish Columbia, maintaining service was proving a severe economic burden. Super Ecran told the CRTC that the western service was costing the com­ pany $1 million annually. CRTC chairman Andre Bureau, commenting on the Jan. 31 de­ cision, noted that the "Com­ mission is still committed to a national French-language pay­ TV service and will review Super Ecran's proposal to re­ instate its service in western Canada at the time of its lice nse renewal in March 1987." Super Ecran now serves Atlantic Canada, Quebec, On­ tario and eastern Manitoba. Service to western Canada was discontinued on Jan. 31, 1985. Unions/producers start negotiations TORONTO - The independe nt producers groups - the Cana­ dian Film and Television Asso­ ciation and the Association of Canadian Film and Television Producers - have begun joint negotiations with ACTRA and the Directors' Guild. The pro­ ducers hope to have an agree­ m e nt by March 31. Michael MacMillan, CFTA vice-pre­ sident, told Cinema Canada that he could not comment on the outstanding issues. Pat Ferns, ACFTP chairman. noted that "it's a question of unions no longer asserting what the agreement is but negotiating rates." He said that the real fighting would be with the writers, as producers "try to move to royalties rather than residuals." He said "the rela­ tionship of writers' fees to bud­ gets was conceived in terms of the tax-shelter years. Reality is different."

March 1985 - Cinema Canada/57 • CINE MAti • loss of producers' support delays hearings OTTAWA - One day after the the h earings postponed. We CFTA include the uncertain withdrawal of a major backer were re ady to go and start fate of the Broadcast Fund, the ' for a Canadian youth channel, looking at programming." effect on the marketability of the Canadian Radio-television Earlier the CRTC had thrown ne w service of the carriage of and Tele communications out the NFB's proposal for a distant signals, and the teeth­ Commission (CRTC) has de­ family service on the grounds ing problems of "the theore­ Film Arts layed public hearings on youth of a poor finanCing plan. tically co-operative structure and family-oriented channels, The Canadian Film and Tele­ between general-interest pay The hearing, originally sche­ vision Association (CFTA) which and specialty services, cable duled for Feb. 5, was delayed had submitted an intervention, operators, independent pro­ due to withdrawal of support "Kidding Ourselves," were ducers, and free TV operators." from Dr, Geoff Conway, presi­ pleased with the latest turn of More significantly, the CFTA dent of CUC Limited, Conway events, In their intervention was concerned about the limit­ was the principal shareholder the CFTA had recommended ed choice being offered the of Youth Broadcasting Inc., the that "the CRTC not license any Commission, Essentially, the company formed to propose youth services at this time and CFT A felt that independent 16/35 post-production the Carousel family channel place a moratorium on cable producers will be left out in the Television and feature and the French-language DEFI carriage of foreign youth-ser­ cold when it comes to program­ production Jeunesse service. The with­ vices in Canada:' The CFTA felt ming a new family channel. As . drawalleft First Choice-Super­ that in the light of the govern­ a result, the CFTA recommend­ channel as the only applicant ment's intention to review ed: "A significantly higher remaining to provide a family­ broadcast policy and the un­ committment to Canadian oriented service, certainty of the broadcast en­ content by air time; and res­ Susan Rubes, who had been vironment a new network traints to reduce the side-effects 461 Church Street named president of The Family license might "pre-judge the of corporate concentration," Channel, told Cinema Canada outcome of federal initiatives." Toronto - Canada it was "a bit of a blow to have Other concerns voiced by the M4Y 2C5 CRTC says no to classified cable channel OTTAWA - The Canadian Ra­ had applied to carry a digital, an experimental basis is the dio-television and Telecom­ 2.4-h')Ur non-programming ser­ single best way to settle the Telephone: 416-962-0181 munications Commission vice consisting of advertiser­ question of impact on other (CRTc) has denied bids by two supported classified advertiSing media while limited any nega­ companies to operate a classi­ and community messages on a tive consequences should they fied advertising channel. In the non-discretionary basis, occur:' Snow added that the decision Jan. 30, the Commis­ In a press release James "decision to forbid cable ad­ sion re-affirmed its intention to Snow, Ontario minister of verti1iing has substantial nega­ hold a public hearing by the transportation and communi­ tive consequences for the ca ble end of 1985 to undertake an cations, rapped the CRTC for industry in the longer term, overall policy review of non­ its decision. "The promise of Cable advertising could provide programming services, includ­ classified advertising on cable additional funds to allow the ing a classified ads channel. TV has been rejected without a industry to develop creative The CRTC stated it denied trial," he said. new services for its subscribers TELECINE TRANSFERS the applications because it was Ontario supported the appli­ and to keep rate increases From: 35r.nr.n, 16r.nr.n, R8, S8 not convinced the results of the cations and appeared at a down, Canadian cable tv com­ (with or without sound) proposed experiments would public hearing to submit a re­ panies have exported their Optical or Magnetic Sound search study which indicated creativeness to the United provide the CRTC and interest­ To: 3/4" U-Matic ed parties with sufficient evi­ cable classified ads would not States where their systems are dence to base a review of non­ harm local broadcasters. free to offer such services, 1/2" Beta L Beta II programming services. Snow said, "I believe the supported by ads, Why not in 1/2" VHS SP Classic Communications introduction of the service on Canada and why not now?" 3/4" EDITING VIDEO DUPLICATION From: 3/ 4" U-Matic, 1/ 2" Beta L Beta II. VHS SP To: 1/2" Beta II 1/ 2" VHS SP

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S8/Cinema Canada - March 1985 • CINE MAt; • Rogers telecast show annual revenues up TORONTO - Rogers Cablesys­ management to concentrate terns to offer u.s. Cable News terns took over Toronto's City on everything at the same time, Network with insertions of Hall on Feb. 6 for its annual and finance everything at the five-minute news broadcasts meeting which was broadcast same time." by the local broadcaster every live to 750,000 Ontario cable TV In his comments to share­ 30 minutes; and allow cable subscribers. The news for holders, Rogers called on the firms to offer pay-per-view shareholders, however, wasn't CRTC to revamp Canadian programs. great. Results for the first quar­ content rules; allow cable sys- ter, ending Nov. 30, 1984, saw an increase in gross revenues to $84,062,000 from $70,154,000 New Dog gets prize for Agent Orange the previous year, but the loss for the period was $5,463,000 MONTREAL - The Dog of Luis after a having worked exten­ compared with $5,764,000 a and Salvador, the videoclip sively in experimental theatre. year earlier. answer to Luis Bunuel and Sal­ The Dog ofLuis and Salvador, The loss for the previous vador Dali's surrealist classic with an original music score by year included $1,043,000 from Un chien andalou (1928), has New York's Richard Edson, discontinued operations. In netted Montreal video artist was originall)! conceived for a the current period there was Bernar Hebert three awards at multi-media show using a no impact from those opera­ recent international video fes­ blend offilm, video audio tapes tions. tivals in Tokyo, Locarno and and live scenes. A new version Total basic cable subscribers Vancouver. of the show is in preparation increased by 39,000 in the first Produced by Michel Ouellette for this spring. quarter to 1,951,000. of Agent Orange Inc., a new Ted Rogers, vice-chairman Montreal company, The Dog of and chief executive officer, Luis and Salvador shared the commented that "the company first prize at last August's Inter­ Durie to Telefilm is like the Queen Mary. It's a big national Video Art Festival at MONTREAL - John Durie, who operation and it's difficult to Locarno, followed shortly by an has been living in London, En­ turn around." honorable mention at Vancou­ gland for the past five years, A major part of the problem ver'I' Under 5 national video has been appointed director of lies in the company's heavier competition and in November the Telefilm Canada office debt load, up to $762 million by a special merit award at the there. He most recently work­ A Competition and Showcase for from $637 million the previous 7th Tokyo Video Festival. ed as director of marketing The World's Best Animation year, adding over$14 million to "To have won awards at fes­ with PIC International Market­ interest expense. tivals of such high calibre is ing and as director of promo­ Rogers said, "I think it's fair very encouraging," commen­ tions with PIC Publicity Ltd. SEPTEMBER 25-29, 1985 to i'iay our over-all growth ted Hebert who, with Ouellette, The announcemenfwas made For entry blank or Info., write: ANIMATION, 2222 S. Barrington, L.A " CA 90064 made it very difficult for founded Agent Orange in 1982 by Telefilm on Feb. 12. THANKS I THE PAINTED DOOR has been nominated for an ACADEMY AWARD (Live Action Short Film) and Seaton, Jan and Mike of Atlantis want to thank those who made it possible.

Bruce Pittma n Maurice Pion Sinclair Ross Andy Thomson Joe Wiesenfeld Guy Remillard Linda Goranson Robert Verrall Gillian Richardson Claude Derasp Eric Peterson David Mintz Savas Kalogeras Jacques Girard August Schellenberg Paul Morton Bruce Ley Denise Beaudoin Daniel Nalbach Michael Spivak Charles Dunlop Larry Bush Len Watt Peter Pearson Margaret Van Eerdewijk Sandie Pereira Roger Michael Bob Linnell Pedro Gandol Constant Natale Gwen Iveson Andreas Poulsson Martin Menard Brian Wynn Zoe Dirse Jocelyn Bellemare France LaChapelle Andre Chamberland Denis Boucher Ian Stewart Marc Corriveau Jacques Godbout National Film Board of Canada Nicoletta Massone Richard Todd Global Television Network Richard Besse Andre Chaput Canadian Film Development Corporation Esther Auger Grace Avrith Telefilm Canada Walter Klymkiw Marie Tonto-Donati McClelland & Stewart Limited Brian Innes Jean-Pierre Joutel Claude Cardinal Adrian Croll

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March 1985 - Cinema Canada/59 CINE MAti Aman tom between his dreams of peace and his passion for justice CB C staff attacks private sector producers TORONTO - CBC producers The document points sca­ the real world of producing have d e livered a blistering thingly to the abysmal failure qu ality television. Under the SAMUEL attack on the private produc- of the independents during the system proposed by the inde­ tion sector in a draft brief to tax-she lter era. It says, "the pendents management would minister of Communications ordinary viewer would be hard come from law, accountancy Marcel Masse. The unreleased put to dissover where the and other entrepreneurial pur­ LOUNT document, a copy of w hich money generated for Cana­ suits. The CBC would become was obtained by Cinema dian production 9n pay-TV has what many myth-makers be­ Canad a, notes that " the in- actually gone." . lieve (wrongly) it is now - a ·dependents do not have the The paper calls on Masse to bunch of faceless bureaucrats." administrative, financial or appoint an independent inves­ The brief recommends in- produ ction resources to m eet a tigator " armed w ith the a utho­ creased and guaranteed fun­ truly enormous demand for rity of an auditor-gen eral to d ing for the eBe ; the addition ~, - programming." "Nor, in spite scrutinize the real costs of of a second eBe c ha nnel ; a \ t .?i' of their constant se\t:proclama- independent productions review of li censing standards l tion about their efficiency and alongside those of in-house for private sector broadcasters; their economy, do they have productions. We suggest that and a broad-based public dis­ unblemished records as busi- he start with a comparison of cussion of broadcast policy. nessmen," the Association of Danger Bay, the Paul Saltzman Ray Hazzan, president of the Television Producers and half-hour family drama co­ Association of Television Pro­ Directors' brief adds. It points produced with Disney and ducers and Directors. called an particularly at the Association CBC, with the in-house produ c­ e mergency meeting w ith lead­ of Canadian Film and Televi- tion Beachcombers." ing producers to discuss Asso­ sion Producers a nd I' Associa- The brief also warned of the ciation policy and strategy " to and tion des producteurs d e film danger to CBC's management see them through the next few MOONSHINE PRODUCTIONS p" sen ~ RH THOMSON LINDAGRlFFlTHS du Quebec whom it accuses of structure of putting all drama months." Invited to the Feb. 23 CEDRlC SMITH In "SAMUEL LOUNT" direclorofphoiography MARC CHAMPION "bleating" fo r support. It and variety into the indepen­ m eeting were Arnold Amber, edited by RlCHARD MARTIN an d"ecIor KIM STEER sc,eenpiay by PHIL SAVATH and speaks of "their hubris in pro­ dent sector. "That w ould mean David Cherniak, Ron Haggart. claiming they are now ready to that a different kind of manage­ Peter Kelly, Jeanine Locke, Jim LAURENCE KEANE proouced by ELVIRA LOUNT directed by LAURENCE KEANE take over the production of all m ent would emerge 'at the Murray, Mark Starowicz, and television entertainment pro­ eBc. Today's operational eBe Robin Taylor. productd in associalioi with the CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION . TELEFILM CANADA and tie gramming in Canada." managers have emerged from DEPARTME NTof HISTOR leAL and CULTURAL RESOURCES. NEW BRUNSWICK GOVERNMENT.

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. \ 33 0 Adelaide Sl WoO Toronto. Onl M5V 1R4 (4161 593-0556 Te lex 06-219540 • C IN E MAti • First Choice meets video challenge TORONTO - First Choice is "Satisfaction Pack advertising Film Production Insurance meeting the video challenge by the movie channel doesn't head-on with a joint promotion really make it any easier for us with a major video manufac­ to sell the full family of servi­ Insurance Specialists for l turerplanned for this fall. In an ces. } interview with Cinema Canada Louise Brownlee, marketing Frek Klinkhammer, president co-ordinator of the CCTA, told CANADIAN & INTERNATIONAL of First Choice, said that video Cinema Canada that there was . is complimentary to pay-TV. some "conflicting discussion" ALMS He said that research has shown between the cable operators that after a six-month break-in and the movie channel on period, the VCR owner was "how the service should be Since 1965 "twice as likely to become a marketed and priced." premium-TV subscriber be­ By mid-January First Choice cause we represent an oppor­ had chalked up 316,000 sub-­ tunity for library creation and scribers and is expecting to hit­ Michael Devine & Assocs. Ltd. time-shifting of programmes." break even at 350,000 before He denied that by entering the summer. The churn-rate into a promotion with a video (the industry term for discon­ 3901, JEAN"TALON OUEST manufacturer he was encour­ nections) which had been aging copying. Ands he fore­ holding steady at under 6% MONTREAL, QUEBEC H3R 2G4 saw no difficulties with pro­ during the autumn months Give us a cal/- we speak your language! gram suppliers about his pro­ plunged to an all-time low of posed promotion. 3% in December, according to 1-514-735-2579 1-514-739-3161 Klinkhammer declined to Canada's largest cable operator, Telex 05-27317 name the manufacturer or the Rogers Cablesystems. nature of the promotion. It seems likely, however, that FirSt Choice will offer a limited­ time free or reduced subscrip­ tion to purchasers of VCRs. The video campaign is an­ other prong in an aggressive marketing strategy which has emphasized pricing and pack­ aging, not always to the satis­ faction of all cable operators. Some have complained that the retailing decisions were being taken out of their hands. Bill Kincaid, vice-president of marketing at Ottawa Cable­ vision, wrote an open letter to the Canadian Cable and Tele­ VISIOn Association (CCTA) saying that full packages (the Canadian and American servi­ ces) "are more marketable than the three-pack" He said,

Pay subs increase TORONTO - Figures released by Mediastats show that Onta­ rio has experienced a dramatic increase in pay-TV subscrip­ tions for the period December 1983 through December 1984. At the same time Saskatchewan and Alberta showed significant declines. Discretionary service house­ holds grew by 41% in Ontario. Alberta and Saskatchewan de­ clined by 17%. Nationwide, the growth rate was 22%. The latest pay-TV figures available, December 1984, show that The Sports Network Airspeed's expertise in has gained the most subscri­ defining your customs bers, up 24% over the previous needs and eliminating month. In the same month First Choice grew by 2.7%, Super­ clearance dilemmas saves channel by 1.3% MuchMusic time, money and headaches. has a 9.3% increase and Super Our job's to get it there; Ecran 9.7% . The American spe­ cialty channels all posted in­ yours is to call us - today. creases led by Arts & Entertain­ ment (17.4%), The Cable News Network (12.8%), The Nashville Network 02.4%1. Two ethnic channels were _ launched in December. China­ vision signed on 5,215 subscri­ bers and Tele-Latino, 1,689.

March 1985 - Cinema Canada/61